Sentences with phrase «power company director»
Whitefish Energy Holdings has halted work to help restore power in Puerto Rico because the U.S. territory's government has not paid crews as part of a contract that led to accusations of overcharging and incompetence and contributed to the resignation of the power company director.
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«Most of our companies are atoms leveraging bits» — lab science aided by computing power — «and they generally take more capital and a longer time horizon to hit those key milestones,» says Lindy Fishburne, executive director at Breakout Labs and managing director at Breakout Ventures.
Proposed board reforms to Canada's deposit - taking institutions and insurance companies under the new guidelines include: appointing directors with relevant financial services experience; more board control over enterprise risk; enhanced director training, self - assessment and external reviews; and certain powers that allow boards to better direct and monitor management.
Mehrdad Baghai, the managing director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney, Australia, spent months researching the world's most innovative and successful companies for his book As One: Individual Action, Collective Power.
One boon for shareholders for next year's annual meeting: SEC rules that went into effect earlier this week will allow shareholders to change company's governance procedures when it comes to director nominations, which could give shareholders power to nominate directors.
Following completion of this offering, the Principal Stockholders will control more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our common stock, so under current listing standards, we would qualify as a «controlled company» and accordingly, will be exempt from requirements to have a majority of independent directors, a fully independent nominating and corporate governance committee and a fully independent compensation committee.
Elise is now an independent director serving as Chair of EasyPark, Parking Corporation of Vancouver; and as a director of Enmax Corporation, an Albertan power utility, Great Panther Silver, an international mining company and Westland Insurance Group, an insurance brokerage with a property and casualty insurance subsidiary.
Mr. Kwauk is currently a senior consultant of Motorola Solutions (China) Co., Ltd. and serves as an independent non-executive director of Thunder Power Co. Ltd., a Taiwan company with its shares traded on Taiwan's Gre Tai Securities Market; Sinosoft Technology Group Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, of which Mr. Kwauk is also the chairman of its audit committee; and several private companies.
Defense Alliance Executive Director Chip Laingen and his staff have helped introduce dozens of companies to opportunities in the defense industry and created a special program to promote the region's power and energy sector.
Alan joined Vision Critical from Fuel Powered, where he served as CTO and Product Director, overseeing and directing the company's product vision, design, architecture, and execution.
This is from their most recent dividend announcement: «OAKVILLE, ON, March 10, 2016 / CNW / — Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. («APUC» or the «Company»)(TSX: AQN, AQN.PR.A, AQN.PR.D) announced today that the Board of Directors of APUC (the «Board») has declared a dividend of U.S. $ 0.09625 per common share, payable on April 15, 2016 to the shareholders of record on March 31, 2016 for the period from January 1, 2016 to March 31, 2016.
Yet, in such companies, the problem is not that one person holds both posts; the problem is that the independent members of the board of directors have delegated to much power to the Chairman.
Under the 2017 Plan, a change in control is defined to include (1) the acquisition by any person or company of more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our then outstanding stock, (2) a merger, consolidation, or similar transaction in which our stockholders immediately before the transaction do not own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 % of the combined voting power of the surviving entity (or the parent of the surviving entity), (3) a sale, lease, exclusive license, or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets other than to an entity more than 50 % of the combined voting power of which is owned by our stockholders, and (4) an unapproved change in the majority of the board of directors.
Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.
Besides being on the board of several HDFC group companies, Mr. Mistry is a director on the board of other public limited companies such as HCL Technologies, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Torrent Power.
They had confirmed on Saturday that they were in talks over a deal in which Standard Life shareholders would own two - thirds of the combined group and where both sets of company directors would split power on the board.
Michael McSweeney, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada Andrée - Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital Management Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President and Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Joe Nemeth, President and CEO, Catalyst Paper Corporation Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Derek Nighbor, CEO, Forests Products Association of Canada Robert Niven, Founder and CEO, CarbonCure Technologies Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources John Risley, Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Clearwater Fine Foods Peter Robinson, CEO, David Suzuki Foundation Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power Vicky Sharpe, Founding President, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Scott Skinner, Executive Director, Clean Foundation Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Ilse Treunicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District Scott Vaughan, President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development Annette Verschuren, CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..
She participates on the Board of Directors for several of PIC's minority investment companies including: Stellar Power and Control Solutions, TinyEYE Technologies, and Ecobain Gardens.
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In addition to her private coaching practice, Juliana has supervised the production of courses at the leading edge, nationally acclaimed personal growth and online education company Evolving Wisdom, where she served as the Program Director for the inaugural launch of the Conscious Uncoupling 5 - Week Program to Release the Trauma of a Breakup, Reclaim Your Power & Reinvent Your Life.
In this environment, large public companies almost inevitably appear as hierarchies based on the absolute power of the Board of Directors, driven by the ethos of short - term gain for executives and corporate shareholders.
Just as there is a difference between a citizen and a mere subject, so there is a difference between an employee who is simply hired by his company and one who shares, officially and formally, in the ultimate power to determine the company's aims and call its directors to account.
Rather than concentrating on improving the current system and insuring the timely designations and re-authorizations of state certified MWBE companies and their entry into the universe of state contracting, the law increases the arbitrary power of the director of the program while complicating the reporting systems required of contractors.
«The Director of Operations at Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Tetteh Ankamah Okyne, says the power cut the nation is currently experiencing is due to the activities of vultures and other birds... The company disclosed this last week when the Public Utility Regulatory Commission convened a meeting among the power producers, including VRA, Gridco, ECG, Asogli, among others, to ascertain the cause of the power cut being witnessed in Accra and certain parts of the cCompany of Ghana (ECG), Tetteh Ankamah Okyne, says the power cut the nation is currently experiencing is due to the activities of vultures and other birds... The company disclosed this last week when the Public Utility Regulatory Commission convened a meeting among the power producers, including VRA, Gridco, ECG, Asogli, among others, to ascertain the cause of the power cut being witnessed in Accra and certain parts of the ccompany disclosed this last week when the Public Utility Regulatory Commission convened a meeting among the power producers, including VRA, Gridco, ECG, Asogli, among others, to ascertain the cause of the power cut being witnessed in Accra and certain parts of the country.
The director of Puerto Rico's power company resigned on Friday amid ongoing blackouts and scrutiny of a contract awarded to a small Montana - based company to help rebuild the electric grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria.
«One of the main reasons large scale solar development is initiated is because the utilities issue requests for proposals for projects, and that's exactly what happened on Long Island,» said Chris Wiedemann, director of development for S Power Solar, a West Coast company that had three projects chosen in April by LIPA, one each in Calverton, Southold and Shoreham.
The Managing Director, Bayelsa Electricity Company, Mr. Olice Kemenanabo, gave the assurance on Friday while showcasing the activities of the state ministry of power since the inception of the Seriake Dickson administration in 2012.
Graduate roles in small start - ups also tend to involve more responsibility, says Christoph Roessner, managing director and co-founder of Süssen - based company Eight, which develops solar - powered charging stations for electric cars.
In addition to offering vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel, battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.
Alexander Karsner, assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, and John Tuccillo, director of the Green Grid, which represents 92 information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers, announced the deal during a press conference at the New York Stock Exchange.
The Federal University of Brasilia is so hard up that it can not pay bills and the directors have to ring up the president of the local electricity company every month begging him not to cut the university's power supply.
He is a contributing editor for Scientific American and editorial director at Intellectual Ventures, a research and investment firm that has a spin - off company working on fission (not fusion) power.
The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.
«We spent a lot of time validating each shade to make sure they are truly representative of the end product,» Kristy Frivold, senior director of Sephora's Innovation Lab, says of the mind - bending 8,000 shades across 90 brands the company painstakingly inputted into their (ModiFace - powered) Virtual Artist, first launched in 2016.
I am the North East Director for a company that builds and repairs power plants so I travel quite frequently travel all over the NE.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steven Soderbergh Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Jack Gill Plot: A legal assistant who was previously uneducated brings suite against a power company for poisoning the water when at first no one believed her.
Finalists were invited to screen their films — all of which focused on the power of technology in the classroom — at the White House, in the company of President Obama, actor and associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Kal Penn, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
News of the successful deal comes just days after company director Dr Ulrich Bez completed a successful test of Aston's upcoming Hydrogen - powered Nurburgring 24 racer.
Echoed Steve Bartoli, director of Chrysler car marketing, «It's all about the power of the merged company.»
At the SAE 2014 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego, Chris Kirby, founder and Managing Director of UK - based Magnomatics, presented an overview of the company's second - generation MAGSPLIT (Magnetic Power Split)... Read more →
Nancy Gioia, the company's director of advanced power trains, said the Ford C - max Energi will use Ford's next generation hybrid system.
SAN FRANCISCO — At the Open Mobile Summit here yesterday Amazon Kindle Director Russell Baker confirmed that the company is no longer selling the Sprint Nextel - powered Kindle.
«We want to change the way people think about credit cards and their credit card company by putting the power back in the hands of customers,» says Paul Wilmore, managing director - Consumer Markets, Barclaycard US, in a statement.
The regulations governing Standard Life Aberdeen plc's internal management - the rights of shareholders, the conduct of meetings and the appointment, removal and powers of the Directors - are set out in the Company's articles of association.
Fire - power covers a host of tactics: Sometimes it's just sheer weight of money (and they become the largest shareholder), but it also includes nominating directors to the board, conducting proxy fights, deposing and / or appointing management, suggesting operational changes and / or asset / business sales, scaring up bidders for a company (or even bidding themselves), demanding strategic reviews or even wind - downs or liquidations, etc..
In theory, fund directors fulfill the same general role as the directors of public companies, with broad powers to safeguard shareholder interests — including, if necessary, firing the advisory firm running the fund.
This fire - power covers a host of tactics: Sometimes it's simply sheer size (they become the largest shareholder), but it also includes nominating directors, conducting proxy fights, deposing / appointing management, recommending operational changes & asset / business sales, finding bidders for the company (or even bidding themselves), demanding strategic reviews or even wind - downs / liquidations, etc..
Moreover, under Delaware law, the Board of Directors is given the power to determine, in the first instance, whether the Company should be dissolved.
Effective today, if any person or group acquires 15 percent or more of the voting power of the Company's outstanding common stock without the approval of the Board of Directors, there would be a triggering event causing significant dilution in the voting power of such person or group.
With a large power struggle between Kojima Productions and Konami, resulting in Hideo Kojima's departure from the company, fans of the renowned game director became concerned about the future of his famed Metal Gear franchise.